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Google's Ray Kurzweil on the computers that will live in our brains
May 3, 2013
Futurist Ray Kurzweil pushes for far-out technological advances to become reality. Now at Google, he says search has much further to go. In 20 years, our brains will be indexed and online.
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Augmented reality is... virtually here
Mar 8, 2013
Google’s computer eyeglasses are just one device in a fast-growing field called augmented reality. This kind of technology has been around for a while, but it hasn’t really caught on. Until now.
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Google Terminator glasses for sale by end of the year
Feb 22, 2012
The future will be in your face!
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Pop music somehow becomes even more artificial than the Black-Eyed Peas
Oct 28, 2011
An hour-long augmented reality concert took place in Japan yesterday, featuring 3-D characters that have been consistently ranking in the top 10...
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Army tests out consumer-grade smartphones for combat
Jun 3, 2011
The Wall Street Journal reports that starting Monday, the Army start testing on the battlefield the same iPhones and Android phones you buy off the...
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Sony demos AR system
May 31, 2011
Augmented Reality has been the Next Big Thing for a while now, although it never manages to become the Actual Current Big Thing. Will Sony's new...
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Augmented reality mind blowers and jaw droppers
Dec 21, 2010
Or, if you'd prefer, mind droppers and jaw blowers. Jaw blowers? Ouch!...
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2011 will be the year of augmented reality*
Dec 21, 2010
A new report from Forrester Research says that while augmented reality apps have been around for a while, it's been more about the gee-whiz factor...
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Augmented Reality: drones attack Jimmy Fallon, Marketplace newsroom
Oct 11, 2010
Augmented Reality layers graphics and information over images of our real world in real time. Those yellow first down lines that show up on the...
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Get a (second) life
Sep 1, 2010
A Japanese seaside resort is teaming up with Konomi Digital Entertainment to create a vacation getaway for young men and their virtual girlfriends....
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